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SUMMARY:SSW Webinar: Understanding Tech Dependence in the Context of Current Life Stressors
DESCRIPTION:This timely webinar examines the convergence and impact of technology and stress in the midst of Covid-19. Learn how today’s technology inhibits learning\, creates attention issues\, negatively impacts your health and sets you and your loved ones up for potential unwanted consequences. Discover research showing how technology potential primes individuals for dependence and even violence. Observe how effortlessly pornography is accessed by children\, tools that facilitate it and just how predators can easily access children. Learn vital information revealing the conditions ripe for increased psychological imbalance\, self injury and even suicide. Get answers to your personal and professional questions. *This is a full day webinar. Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate of completion. \n\n\n\nInstructor: \nJohn Kriger\, MSM\, LCADC\, CPS\n\n\nDate: \nWednesday\, February 15\, 2023\n\n\nTime: \n9:30 am – 3:00 pm ET\n\n\nLocation: \nZoom (Interactive Webinar)\nOnline Live Webinar\, Online\, NJ\n\n\n\n  \nFor more information and registration: Click here
URL:https://www.addiction.rutgers.edu/event/ssw-webinar-understanding-tech-dependence-in-the-context-of-current-life-stressors/
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SUMMARY:CMBN Colloquium Series: New Approaches to the Neuroscience of Human Drug Addiction: Drug Bias\, Natural Language Processing and the Synchronized Brain
DESCRIPTION:Online | Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98443527746?pwd=SDcyRE1PRlZ1VStWTi92Q1J5YWNadz09\nDrug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by excessive drug use despite catastrophic personal consequences (e.g.\, loss of family\, job\, health) and even when the substance is no longer perceived as pleasurable. In a theoretical model called iRISA (Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution) we postulated that core impairments in addiction are the disproportionate value/salience attributed to the drug and drug cues at the expense of other reinforcers\, with a concomitant decrease in inhibitory control and self-regulation. This model assigns a primary role to the prefrontal cortex\, part of the dopaminergic mesocorticolimbic circuit\, in these higher-order executive deficits. In this talk\, I will present results of human neuroimaging studies where we utilized a multimodal approach (neuropsychology\, functional magnetic resonance imaging\, diffusion weighted imaging\, event-related potentials recordings) across drugs of abuse (cocaine\, heroin) to explore the neurobiology underlying these core behavioral\, cognitive\, emotional and motivational impairments in drug addiction (encompassing drug cue reactivity\, impulsivity) as associated with its clinical symptomatology (encompassing craving and drug seeking). Novel results shed light on brain recovery with abstinence and active treatment\, inclusive of cognitive enhancement with pharmacological (methylphenidate) and behavioral (cognitive reappraisal) tools\, as well as with mindfulness and direct brain stimulation (with transcranial devices). Natural language processing and naturalistic stimuli (i.e.\, movies: real-life\, dynamic\, complex and context-rich) are now also being explored in the lab for their use in unraveling ecologically valid brain-behavior biomarkers (and predictors) of both impairment and recovery in drug addiction. Together\, this talk will exemplify the use of neuroimaging to better understand human drug addiction and for the development of empirically-based effective neurorehabilitation strategies in this devastating disorder.
URL:https://www.addiction.rutgers.edu/event/cmbn-colloquium-series-new-approaches-to-the-neuroscience-of-human-drug-addiction-drug-bias-natural-language-processing-and-the-synchronized-brain/
LOCATION:Aidekman Research Center\, Room 103\, 197 University Avenue\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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